It’s one thing to dig into a Civil War battlefield and find fragments from military campaigns from 150 years ago. It’s another thing entirely to dig into a Civil War battlefield and find something that’s about 10,000 years old. But that’s what Kingsley Kilgore did. A senior in anthropology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, she found what’s being called a “projectile point” because it’s not clear whether…
In January, when Rachel Reese took over as director and curator of the George Ayers Cress Gallery of Art, she had ideas fueled by her excitement and energy. Then coronavirus arrived. Her plans for the gallery, located inside the newly renovated Fine Arts Center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, were put into a five-month holding pattern but the excitement was still flying high. With fall semester in…
The SMILE Fund is currently recruiting new members. Applications are being taken online through Oct. 15. A Zoom informational session called “Learn About the SMILE Fund” will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Thurs., Sept. 24. Melissa Mueller doesn’t make a big fuss out of being the first female president of the SMILE Fund in the Gary W. Rollins College of Business. “I’ve always been one of the guys,”…
Each year, a group of faculty members at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga are selected from across campus and recognized for their stellar accomplishments in an array of categories which include: Rapport with students, passion for teaching, research, public service or tireless work on behalf of UTC. For 2020, the Outstanding Faculty Award winners are: University of Tennessee Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Awards Lisa Burke-Smalley, Guerry…
